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September 2020

September 14, 2020
Over time, denominations and churches rise and fall, and mergers and acquisitions are a recurring...
September 11, 2020
Through the years, I have worked a good deal on Pennsylvania history, having taught for...
September 10, 2020
Peter Manseau is Curator of American Religious History at the Smithsonian. His most recent book...
September 09, 2020
Why are evangelical Protestants so often opposed to established institutions, especially in government?  And should...
September 08, 2020
Now that Chris' spiritual biography of Charles Lindbergh is nearing publication, he looks back at...
September 07, 2020
For a current project, I am trying to identify three forms of political secularism that...
September 04, 2020
I have often posted at this site on British history during the post-Roman and Anglo-Saxon...
September 03, 2020
Today we're joined at the Anxious Bench by John Schmalzbauer, a sociologist and professor of...
September 02, 2020
I checked my map to be certain it was the right stop. It was. Caledonian...
September 01, 2020
I’m now one day into my experience of teaching on a college campus in the...

August 2020

August 31, 2020
The labels and limits we apply to historical periods do much to shape how we...
August 28, 2020
So that Shakespeare really is that good… Like many of us, my life has been...
August 27, 2020
Sometime around the year 1610, Portuguese slave traders seized a young girl, by tradition on...
August 26, 2020
The surprising origins of Kentucky's spirit
August 25, 2020
He shows up in my spiritual biography of Charles Lindbergh, but I wish I knew...
August 24, 2020
A couple weeks ago, when the nation was abuzz with the news that Joe Biden...
August 21, 2020
The HBO series Lovecraft Country is reviving interest in the author H. P. Lovecraft, in...
August 20, 2020
Last month, Abram Van Engen contributed a post here at the Anxious Bench on “Os...
August 19, 2020
Next week Baylor’s fall semester begins. Courtesy of the pandemic, stress among both students and...
August 18, 2020
For the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Chris reviews a few...
August 17, 2020
Some years ago, I wrote a book called The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year...
August 14, 2020
This year commemorates the 75th anniversary of Japanese surrender in the Second World War, VJ...
August 12, 2020
A good book can turn your life around. I just finished Jesus and John Wayne...
August 12, 2020
In the mid-1970s, Blacks were more likely than any other group of Americans to oppose...
August 11, 2020
With the start of an academic year unlike any other just weeks away, Chris shares...
August 10, 2020
Coverage of All-Things-Covid has unfortunately crowded from the news cycle treatment of two events pertaining...
August 07, 2020
Critic Colin Manlove once listed the three main writers of "Christian fantasy" during the twentieth...
August 06, 2020
Earlier this week Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University and one of President Trump’s...
August 05, 2020
The nothingness surprised me. I stepped over the low stone wall and walked down the...
August 04, 2020
Looking into the news that a pagan group has bought a former Lutheran church in...
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